The game took 4 hours and 17 minutes and at the beginning of the game there were 22,659 fans in the stands and by the end of the game there less than 20,000 in the stands by the time Cory Patterson came up to open the 14th inning and Patterson took a ball to open the abat which was followed by 2 foul offs until he found his pitch which was a fastball that he sent to right field for a game winning homer to give the Blue Jays a 9-8 win. The Jays could of been able to finish the game in the original 9 innings but instead with a 8-7 lead Frank Francisco came in to shut down the Chisoxs and Juan Pierre fly out for one out and then both Alexei Ramirez and Paul Konerko doubled around an Adam Dunn strikeout to tie the game @ 8 which is bad for Frank Francisco because it looks like he needs to get as far away from the 9 inning for a while as it looks to be hurting his confidence.
In the bottom of the first the Jays started on fire as Yunel Escobar walked and Cory Patterson singled which brought Jose Bautista to plate and the struggling Bautista came in with 19 homers and once again he hit a homer in his first abat to give him 39 first abat homers since beginning of the 2010 season and now has 20 homers on the season which gave the Jays an early 3-0 lead. In the top of the second Alex Rios started it off doubling to Eric Thames in left field for first time in his major league career and after an Omar Vizquel strikeout Brent Lillibridge homered to make 3-2 going and then Brent Morel singled and was moved to second on a bunt by Pierre and ushered by a Alexei Ramirez single to tie it at 3 going into the third inning. In the bottom of the third Patterson and Bautista both singled to open the inning and with one out Arron Hill doubled them both in to make it 5-3 but then Thames and Davis both struck out to end the inning and then the Chisoxs tied up the game in the five inning as Juan Pierre reached on a fielding error by Arron Hill and with one out Adam Dunn singled him in to tie it @ 5 which was followed by a Paul Konerko double which lead to an A. J. Pierzynski double to drive in both and give the Chisoxs their first and only lead in the game.
In the bottom of the seventh inning Juan Rivera came to the plate with the bases loaded and a very rare thing happened he came up and cleaned off the bases with a bases clear 3 run double to make it 8-5 Jays which has to be one of the most important abat so far this season as the Chisoxs pitched around Bautista to load the bases and Juan made them pay dearly. If it happened more often then the opponents would think twice about pitching around Bautista which would in able Bautista at some more RBI opportunities which would increase the Jays run production so lets hope that Rivera/Hill can get the job done more often and that when Adam Lind gets back he can be a strong bat behind Bautista.
In the eighth inning up three runs after Marc Rzepczynski pitched a 1-2-3 inning with a walk and a double play thrown in Octavio Dotel comes in and with two out Brent Lillibridge tripled and was ushered home by a pass ball charged to catcher Jose Molina to take to 8-7 and brought that much closer to 5 extra innings.
In his second start in a few seasons Carlos Villanueva pitched 5 innings and gave up 6 runs (5 earned) on 8 hits in another spot start replace Jesse Litsch in the rotation with a walk and 4 Ks but the pitching star for the Jays was Luis Perez who came in with one out in the tenth inning and finished off the remainder of the game with 2 hit shutout over the last 3.2 innings of the game to pick up his first ever major league win. While for Chisoxs got unreliable pitching by starter Edwin Jackson who throw 6.2 innings and gave up 6 runs (all earned) on 9 hits and a walk while striking out 7 Jays along the way but it was the bullpen of Chris Sale, Sergio Santos, and Gavin Floyd who pitched 6 innings of 3 hit shutout ball with 2 walks and 4 Ks to keep them in the game but then Gavin Floyd also gave Patterson that fastball that ended the game and gave the Jays 2 wins in a row and the chance of a series win tomorrow.
Johnny Mac has been placed on the 15 game DL after his wild throw in game one of the series and Mike McCoy has brought back up to replace him and took over third in today's game after Edwin Encarnacion pinched hit for Jayson Nix and struck out in the bottom of the seventh so Lawrie still waits his turn in Las Vegas.
Jays send Ricky Romero to the hill looking for his 4 straight amazing start against John Danks who is winless as he is 0 and 7 so far for the Chisoxs this season
Tom Mehegan
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